Dr. Diana Lynn Vaughn Swihart

Diana Lynn Vaughn Swihart

PhD, DMin, MSN, APN CS, FAAN, RN-BC, P-PCA

Dr. Swihart enjoys many roles in her professional career, practicing in widely diverse clinical and nonclinical settings. She is a Nursing Professional Development Specialist and Patient Safety Nurse Consultant, at the VHA National Center for Patient Safety. An author of many books, speaker, researcher, educator, mentor, and consultant, she holds graduate degrees in nursing and leadership and doctorates in theology, ministry, and ancient Near Eastern studies (archaeology). She has facilitated the application of evidence-based practice and nursing research and provided operational leadership and education for the shared governance processes for multiple organizations, nationally and internationally. As one of two of the world’s leading authorities on shared governance and its research, she currently partners with Robert Hess, providing in-depth consultations for design and redesign of shared governance through the Forum for Shared Governance.

Dr. Swihart’s doctoral dissertation at Trinity Southwest University, The Monistic V. Dichotomic V. Trichotomic Discussion on the Constitution of the Human Being in the Light of Biblical Semiotics,

 is a pioneering and foundational document in Representational Research which in its early days was referred to as Biblical Semiotics. This dissertation explores triadic structure and Biblical languages to examine biblically the constitution of humans.